4-Man first real performance

Yesterday at LLAB (it's a 2-hour period where all of the ROTC cadets get together for lectures, guest speakers, practice marching, combat days, etc.) the topic was Drill and Ceremonies. The cadets in charge thought it would be a good idea to have the 4-man team perform for everyone because drill team is the epitome of well...drill. The uniform of the day were their BDU's but when they perform this at SCIDM and other places around Utah they are in full service dress (the blue suit) and have special hats to wear and white gloves. They have a performance tomorrow at the SCERA theater in Orem that is open to the public and will be their first time performing for a big group of civilians. Their performance is divided into two because our stupid camera will only let me record a 3-minute long video and then automatically stop. So if you want to buy me an awesome video camera or something of that relation, that would be great! There was only one gun drop in the performance. Clay was trying to catch it and it dropped but I am sure he would like me to point out that it wasn't his fault, but Cadet Gross' throw and was sure to point out to me that Cadet Gross kept apologizing afterward. After the performance cadet Captain Williams (the drill team captain who everyone is scared of) came up to me and we talked for about 10 minutes about Clay and his future. Clay is considering putting pilot as his first job choice because of the possibilities it would give him compared to any other career choice. If he wants to be general, his odds go way up if he is a pilot. Plus he gets extra pay, other benefits, shorter deployments, and gets a lot of special treatment if he goes that route. We haven't made any final decisions but Capt. Williams was trying to help persuade me to let Clay be a pilot, and I'm not totally opposed to it anymore. We'll see! Clay talked to the Colonel for an hour this morning allllll about his career options, how to become a general and what he needs to do. We'll keep you updated. He has a year to figure it out :)

Anyway - here are the videos. I put them up on Youtube this time so that the other cadets could watch and critique themselves. Hopefully you don't get too sick of seeing this same performance in another day or two. I plan on putting it up here so you can see what it looks like in their other uniform with the hats and all.